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unknight

unknight verb: to deprive of knighthood.

Verb

unknight (third-person singular simple present unknights, present participle unknighting, simple past and past participle unknighted)

  1. (transitive) To deprive of knighthood.
    • [I cannot believe] he was unknighted so long, besides the improbability that he would condescend to such an office.a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC

Forms of unknight

third-person singular presentunknights
present participleunknighting
past participleunknighted
pastunknighted

Origin of unknight

From un- + knight.

Questions about unknight

What does unknight mean?
Unknight means to deprive of knighthood.
What part of speech is unknight?
Unknight is a verb.
What is the past tense of unknight?
The past tense of unknight is unknighted.

Words near unknight in the dictionary

  1. unkneeling
  2. unknelled
  3. unknew
  4. unknickered
  5. unknifed
  6. unknight
  7. unknighted
  8. unknighting
  9. unknightlike
  10. unknightliness
  11. unknightly

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